Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-02-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
Work Of the Senate and the House
Of Representatives.

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sIxTY-sIx pension bills were passed by the
Senats on the 5th inst, granting among others
a pension of $50 a month to General 7. ~ Mea-
ghers widow and an increase in pension to the
widow OF Colonel J. II. Jones OF the Marine
Corps The Indian appropriation bill was
passed by the Senate without discussion. The
House Of Representative passed q bill appro.
known as the Fourth Of July claims. The Presi-
dent vetoed several pension bills. In the case
Of ouhSsI stone ,ba he otsG from the the
most OF his time In deserting or In prison for
desertion, and In the case OF Abraham I. Grigg
he quoted from the hospital records to show
that the claimant was not sick, but completely
worthless, obese, and lazy
RESOLUTIONS OF the Kansas Legislature for
the opening Of the territory OF Oklahoma were
presented in the Senate on the 7th. The Senate
passed twenty House bills Among them were
the bill TO amend the act Of Feb. 70, 1885. to
prohibit the importation and immigration OF
isbor and the @ to amend section 5 81 e act
OF June TO- 1880, in relation to Immediate
transportation Of dutiable goods. The Sem
ate also passed pills 70 encourage the
navy ordnance and to erect gun factories at
Watervliet Arsenal and the Washington Navy
Yard. The sum OF s21,OOO,c0o Is appropriated
Board OF Trade in favor OF n general bankruptcy
law was presented. Senator Ingalls, resolution
regarding the rejection by the Senate OF Mat
thews (coloredl to be Recorder Of Deeds Of the
District of Columbia was adopted by q
party vote Of 26 to Is. The President sent
the following nominations to the Senate: =. Q:
Lore, OF Missouri. to be Consul General at
the City of Mexico. J. M. Needham Of Frank
lin, Ind, to be agent for the Indians Of the
Lemhi agency. in Idaho: Mrs; Margaret M.
County, Ill. The House OF Representatives
passed bills granting right Of way through In
dian Territory to the Chicago, Kansas and Ne
braska Railway, and apPropriating si250oo
for the completion of the public build
ing at Detroit. Those who
pected that Speaker Carlisle would
member to move to suspend the rules and pass
a bill aboli shing the tax on tobacco were disap-
pointed. The spe sker; IN his coT.esponsdenco ..sp s
the House a revenue measure, plainly intimated
that he would rot give recognition to any mem
Der to pass, under suspension Of the rules, any
bill to change the internal revenue la ws that
did not include changes in the customs laws,
and to those gentlemen who on the 7th inst. ap-
piled for recognition to make such motion, the
SpC aker gave respectful but positive refusal
MEMORIAL OF citizens Of New Lebanon,
Ohio, asking the initiation OF negotiations for
the acquisition Of Canada, was presented in
the Senate on the eth inst. Bills we're passed
for the settlement OF accounts with the Mobile
and Ohio Road, to prohibit any agent of the
Government from hiring out the labor OF
prisoners, and to ascertain the extent and
value OF the vessel fisheries OF the United States
The President sent the following nominations
of postmasters TO the Senate: At Aurora.
Ind, Sanford G. Given; Chenoa. nl., Sylvanus
Chapman; Earlville, ILL.,. Berkley G.. Barratt ;
Monroe, Mich, Henry r. Noble; Plainwell,
Mich, Jacob V. Rogers New Richmond, Wis,
Ezra A. Glover, Jr. Fort Howard, Wis, Peter
V. Cottrell; Benicia, Cal, William H. Foreman ;
Buffalo Wyoming, Leollie Simmons Butte
City, Montana, Patrick Talen. The House
OF Representatives passed bills to indem-
a.akn s.aI
by a mob at Rock Springs Wyo, and to pro
hibt the importation Of opium by any subject
Of the Emperor Of China; for public building
at Houston to cost SIS 900. and TO grant the Seal
Rocks to the city OF San Francisco. Addresses
eulogistic OF the deceased Representatives. FROM
XSa TsSf aSSSs5SS By SnS Ssncf M@rd
MEMORIAL services in honor of the late Gen.
eral John A. Logan were held in the Senate
the 9Th inst. The Senate chamber was packed
with attentive listenors--Mrs Logan and fam
lily being among the number. Fifteen members
delivered touching eulogies on the life and SER
vices Of the dead Senator. In the House OF Rep
resentatiyes eulogistic addresses relative to
tho death Of the late Congressman Price OF
Wisconsin were delivered by Representatives
Caswell Thomas of Wisconsin, Hudd, Petit
bone Henderson OF Iowa, and Breckinridge OF
Kentucky. The House passed a bill authorizing
the Fort Worth and Denver Road to lay track
through Indian Territory The Senate bills APP
propriatirt S2l, 100000 for coast defenses and
gun foundrios were sent by the House to the
Committee on Appropriations.
JOINT resolutions of the Republican members
Of the Indiana Legislature were presented in
the Senate on the 10th inst, protesting against
the validity Of the election OF David Turpie rs
United States Senator. The Senate amended
aud passed House bills relating to the importing
of mackerel caught during the spawning sea-
son, and for the erection of branch Soldiers
Home west OF the Rocky Mountains, as
also Senate measure giving right OF
way through the Coeur dAlene reserva-
tion to two railways. Unfavorablo reports
were made ON bills for a sub-treasury at Louis
vile and for the erection of n Federal prison.
A bill was reported for the division of the State
OF Illinois into judicial districts. Senator Gull
lom introduced bill providing that no prisoner
shall ba debarred from receiving patent nor
any patent be declared invalid by reason of its
having been first patented I'm a foreign country,
unless Il has been introduced into public use In
the United States for more than two years prior
to the application. Tne President sent the
following nominations to the Senate Post
master-At Mfiinburg Pa, Cyrus A. Eaton !;
Houtzdale, Pa, g. w. Dickey; Lewisburg, Pa,
William Himmelright; Brownsville, Tenn,
Daniel Bond. To be Register of Land Office,
Samuel +. Byrne, at Marquette, Mich. To be
Indian agents, at Fort Belknap agency, Mon
tana, Edwin G. Fields, OF Maryland; Colorado
River agency, Arizona. George w. Busey, OF
Illinois. The House of Representatives passed
bills appropriatin9 S575, 900 for public building
at Denver, and granting railroad right-of-way
aero the Ft Douglas military res ervation, Utah.